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<h1>What is it?</h1>

<p><em>youtube-dl</em> is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few <a href="supportedsites.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">more sites</a>. It requires the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python interpreter</a>, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. The project is currently being developed at <a href="https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/"><strong>GitHub</strong></a>.</p>

<h1>Authors</h1>

<p>Core team:</p>

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<li><a href="https://github.com/yan12125">Yen Chi Hsuan</a>: core developer.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/remitamine">Remita Amine</a>: core developer.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dstftw">Sergey M.</a>: core developer, maintainer since 2016.</li>
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<p>Core team (inactive):</p>

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<li><a href="https://github.com/rg3">Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</a>: original author, program core.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/phihag">Philipp Hagemeister</a>: core developer, maintainer since 2011.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/FiloSottile">Filippo Valsorda</a>: core developer, Windows build, testing.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jaimeMF">Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz</a>: core developer.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/naglis">Naglis Jonaitis</a>: core developer.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/pulpe">pulpe</a>: core developer.</li>
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<p>Many <a href="https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/AUTHORS">other people</a> contributing patches, code, ideas and kind messages. <a href="https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors">Too many</a> to be listed here. You know who you are. Thank you very much.</p>

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Copyright © 2006-2011 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez<br />
Copyright © 2011-2019 youtube-dl developers
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